Painting flowers on a pair of hand painted wedding shoes seems to be all the rage lately - especially gerberas! In the space of two weeks we have painted gerberas onto two pairs of bridal shoes for two of our brides.

Alternative weddings and personalised wedding accessories go hand in hand because I imagine it must be very hard to buy some of the big wedding things, like dresses and suits that reflect your alternative theme

It's quite rare for us to hand paint sling back shoes as you can probably tell from all of the photo's of shoes with back on them. When we do get a pair of sling backs through from a bride it throws up a bit of a creative conundrum.

Hand painting wedding shoes with pink butterflies is nothing out of the ordinary for us, in fact we've painted so many now and gets lots of enquiries about them we thought they deserved their own blog post.

Thank you so much to Claire who asked me to paint her shoes. She was a pleasure to speak with as we hashed out the plans and drafts for the shoes and thank you for asking me to paint such a colourful and interesting pair of hand painted wedding shoes.

I've been to see the Kings of Leon twice and for those of you who have seen them live you'll know what I mean when I say you can feel that Jared Followill's bass riffs vibrate through your very soul and swoon just a little over Jared's brother, Caleb singing out to you.

The hand painted wedding shoes include all sorts of tributes to her special day. Most importantly the black and white stripes were a theme throughout the shoes. I particularly love the black and white bridesmaid dresses which are painted on the inside of one of the shoes. The brides dress is painted on the inside of the other shoe.

A beachy-fied wedding doesn't necessarily mean flip flops or bare feet. Whilst we are the first to discard our shoes and socks in favour of some flip flops when the sun shines we believe a wedding is the time for your feet and shoes to show off. Of course that's our ethos because we are wedding shoe vendors after all!

As we gear up for the 2014 wedding season we are starting to notice a recurring theme to the enquiries which are flooding into our busy mail box: 'We'll leave it up to you'. Whilst this is music to our designer, Gemma Kenward, ears it poses us with a few quandaries.